Chameleon Taxonomy

[Brad]

I was just browsing wikipedia and realized they are listing a classification I am unfamiliar with. In particular are the genera Nadzikambia and Kinyongia; the former looks like it has split from Bradypodion. Is this the most current and generally accepted classification?

wikipedia chameleon page - classification listed on the right

 

[kinyonga]

See this for a partial answer. In the following thread Chris says the next e-zine will explain it...
https://www.chameleonforums.com/latest-edition-few-my-2212/index2.html

 

[Chris Anderson]

Yeah, that's the latest taxonomic divisions. Here is a link to the abstract on the paper that did it: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/z01363p038f.pdf

I was going to have an article on the split in this E-Zine issue (should be released in a day or so) but there are a couple other changes, updates and descriptions on the way I want to include and need to wait for those papers to be published. There were also a number of Calumma species described recently (I've also added those to the wikipedia entry).

Chris

 

[Brad]

Thank you for the replies. I look forward to learning more about the new classifications.